Category Archives: General reviews

When shiny new rocket-fuel insulin Fiasp hit the market, my insulin tart tendencies immediately sprung into action. I had a chat with my consultant (“I’d like that please, I think it might help with post-meal highs and it costs the same as the stuff I use now”), we grappled through the mysteries of the NHS… Read More »

I did start to write a review of my new pump – Medtronic’s beautifully named “640G”. Oh, how for me the lovely name “640G” summons up heady images of Paris boulevards in the springtime; wild flowers swaying in the meadow’s breeze and halcyon thoughts of baby kittens in baskets. Sigh. Anyway, noticing that other people… Read More »

Throughout the annals of human history there have been many epic battles that have captivated and enthralled the human mind. Sampson versus Goliath; Sparta versus Persia; Blur versus Oasis; Darth Vader versus Captain Kirk; the list goes on. But these – even the famous battle of Thermopylae which set Leonidas against Xerxes – all pale… Read More »

The year is 2012. This is the year that I use my iPhone to monitor my sleep, bike rides and even where the nearest earthquake is. Yet, I have never really got to grips with using it to monitor my diabetes. This is most likely due to the fact that seeing all my blood glucose… Read More »

Among the many emails we get here at Shoot Up trying to convince us that our readers really need to know about the latest plant that will cure diabetes, or how for just £2000 you can spend a week in a shed in Spain yoga-ing your way out of diabetes, there is occasionally something useful.… Read More »

How come I’m testing and reviewing? After spotting an advert in Balance, I called Lifescan to blag a new OneTouch Verio Pro to test out. From the advert it seemed like a very, very slimmed down version of the Aviva Expert and it claimed to be able to spot patterns of high and low readings… Read More »

Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up will know that I’m a fan of my puntastically named pump Englebert Pumperdinck. This is for many reasons which I’ve covered off in previous articles so I won’t bore you with them again here. However, one of the unexpectedly useful features of Englebert is the bolus wizard, which… Read More »

A gnomish review of an innovative device. What’s in the box? The device comes in the standard sort of meter packaging, a windowed box which displays the meter. Inside is the meter, of course, a separately packaged test cassette, a lancet cassette for the FastClix finger stabbing device, and half a rainforest. Actually, the half… Read More »